PROPOSITION 82

OFFICIAL TITLE AND SUMMARY

Prepared by the Attorney General

• Establishes a right to voluntary preschool for all four-year old children.
• Funded by a 1.7% tax on individual incomes above $400,000; $800,000 for couples.
• Administered by the state Superintendent of Public Instruction and county school superintendents.
• Directs counties to prepare reports on curricula, outreach, facilities, childcare coordination,
budgeting, teacher recruitment and pay.
• Limits administrative expenses; requires program audits.
• Requires state Superintendent to develop a preschool teaching credential with financial aid
for credential students.
• Excludes revenue from appropriation limits, Proposition 98 calculations.

Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

• Increased state revenues of about $2.1 billion in 2007–08, growing annually with the economy
to around $2.6 billion in 2010–11, when the preschool program would be open to all 4-year olds in
thestate.
• Revenues would be used solely for new state preschool program and would be spent to run
the program, pay for facilities, train teachers, and provide an operating reserve.